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| joanthemaid Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5470 days ago 483 posts - 559 votes  Speaks: French*, English, Spanish Studies: Russian, German | Message 25 of 68 26 February 2011 at 12:05am | IP Logged | ||
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Maybe "kitty" or something such? Some form of "cute" ending? Just an idea, as I really suck at Russian compared to you. Anyway, it's nice to see you're doing well.
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| polyglHot Pentaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5066 days ago 173 posts - 229 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, German, Spanish, Indonesian Studies: Russian | Message 26 of 68 26 February 2011 at 1:22am | IP Logged | ||
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Cats on three floors.
I don't know. Kitty, or female cat would be spelled кисска or коржка. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| petrklic Triglot Pro Member Czech Republic Joined 5086 days ago 95 posts - 109 votes Speaks: Czech*, English, Russian Studies: Vietnamese Personal Language Map | Message 27 of 68 27 February 2011 at 2:06am | IP Logged | ||
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I think it's deliberate misspelling, much like is the case with lolcats in English. I spent some more time on it today, browsing all kinds of котэ images. It seems the word is indeclinable. Sometimes other words in the sentence get the -э ending, like совэ for an owl or убийцэ for a killer (but it can be also убийце or убийцо, apparently. Note that the correct form is убийца). I think it's just a deliberate misspelling meme.
About киска, it seems one needs to be careful here. Киса seems to be the safe term denoting a cute diminutive cat, while киска seems to be used like English "pussy" is these days, as a slang for female genitalia. Google image search essentially gives nothing but porn on that query. I have never seen the word коржка. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| polyglHot Pentaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5066 days ago 173 posts - 229 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, German, Spanish, Indonesian Studies: Russian | Message 28 of 68 27 February 2011 at 2:18am | IP Logged | ||
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Not the way I have learned it and I am currently being immersed by a native Russian
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| petrklic Triglot Pro Member Czech Republic Joined 5086 days ago 95 posts - 109 votes Speaks: Czech*, English, Russian Studies: Vietnamese Personal Language Map | Message 29 of 68 27 February 2011 at 3:36am | IP Logged | ||
Perhaps they just didn't tell you :) But really, that they volunteered the word means that it's probably safe. Thanks. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| joanthemaid Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5470 days ago 483 posts - 559 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish Studies: Russian, German | Message 30 of 68 23 March 2011 at 5:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hey Petrklik! What's up? Did the TAC annihilate you?
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| petrklic Triglot Pro Member Czech Republic Joined 5086 days ago 95 posts - 109 votes Speaks: Czech*, English, Russian Studies: Vietnamese Personal Language Map | Message 31 of 68 23 March 2011 at 7:10pm | IP Logged | ||
:) No, I live! (Therefore I study.) Things have been a bit crazy at work last couple weeks. I still managed to attend all my classes, but besides that I barely had time to keep up with my ANKIs and add a couple cards every now and then. I hope to make a more comprehensive writeup sometime this week, but this will have to do for the time being. (And I had time to watch your log and notice the lack of Russian progress!) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| petrklic Triglot Pro Member Czech Republic Joined 5086 days ago 95 posts - 109 votes Speaks: Czech*, English, Russian Studies: Vietnamese Personal Language Map | Message 32 of 68 26 March 2011 at 12:30am | IP Logged | ||
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Some time ago I promised a nice picture of one of my essays, so here goes. It's hosted on one of these quick image hosting services, and I expect it to go away soon, but oh well. As you can see, the teacher was nice enough not to use the dreaded red pen, but otherwise there's an average of one mistake per line, or something like that. I feel it got a bit better towards the end (I wrote four essays total), but not too much. I tried to find some consolation in that my mistakes are mostly not in grammar, it's just that Russian wouldn't have said it like that, or would have used different words, etc. That will get better over time as I read and get more input in general. I was also proud about myself when some expressions that I thought would fit the situation really got through "unharmed", which means they were both written correctly, and used the right way. Yay!
Other than fun with essays, I watched some TV. I mostly ditched the soap operas, and instead watched more news (mostly the coverage of recent development is Egypt, Lybia etc.) and discussions. One talk show in particular is worth mentioning, Поединок, which is a lot like boxing, except verbal. It goes like this. The host chooses a topic, and invites two speakers. Each of them has a different point of view and tries to support it with arguments. Each of speakers also has a team of two "couches", who help him develop his arguments during the breaks (there are three rounds total). Also invited are "guests", who also support one of the sides, and often add interesting points and arguments to the debate. The host himself frequently finds himself tending towards one of the sides. Since we are in Russia, the debates can get very heated. I haven't seen any actual violence, but ad hominem is par for the course, and it's often the case that two, three or four people speak all at once, trying to shout down each other. The final twist is that viewers can call a number to vote for one of the sides. I thing the original idea was that the viewers choose who should "win" the argument, but it's usually the case that the ratio of votes is more or less constant after about 5 minutes of the show. A couple minutes back I also finished watching the movie Окно в Париж. It was very interesting, both funny and sad, and a bit crazy, and thoughtful at the same time. I was rather disappointed about 20 minutes into the movie, but I followed through and I'm glad I did. The beginning of the second part is outright scary, about a French woman that ends up in St. Petersburg, unable to say a word in Russian except a couple profanities, and quickly becomes prey of local people. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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